{"id":22118,"date":"2016-04-08T18:41:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T18:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=22118"},"modified":"2024-11-27T11:51:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T16:51:18","slug":"uconn-led-travel-survey-will-give-state-decision-makers-updated-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2016\/04\/uconn-led-travel-survey-will-give-state-decision-makers-updated-information\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Led Travel Survey will give state decision makers updated information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Connecticut Statewide Transportation Study: Overview\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6bQ9CGAwDR8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By Josh Garvey<\/p>\n<p>A new travel study being conducted by UConn faculty will provide data for the state travel model, updating decades-old information.<\/p>\n<p>Gathering current data about residents\u2019 travel characteristics will help the Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) to make transportation infrastructure decisions that account for all modes of travel based on up-to-date information.<\/p>\n<p>Professors Karthik Konduri and Nicholas Lownes in civil and environmental engineering are building and executing the survey, with the help of UConn students and Resource Systems Group (RSG Inc.), a consulting company with experience conducting large-scale transportation surveys in support of state of the art transportation models and research.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the reason for this survey is a simple lack of modern information- there hasn\u2019t been a large scale transportation survey conducted in the state for the past 40 years.<\/p>\nThis travel survey draws on all types of travel, including\n<p>\u00a0\u201cConnecticut has changed a lot in the last 40 years. The state is investing in a lot of infrastructure improvements. With this data, they\u2019ll be making decisions based on up-to-date information,\u201d Konduri said.<\/p>\n<p>Konduri and Lownes hope that this initial study will lead to a continued partnership between UConn and CTDOT for travel information. Konduri hopes to not only help update and maintain the existing models that CTDOT uses, but also create more in-depth models that will allow the agency to be more responsive to people\u2019s travel needs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe models that are being estimated and calibrated will be used to support decisions on infrastructure investments,\u201d Lownes said. \u201cThey\u2019re useful for what if or scenario analysis. What will happen if we widen a freeway or add a bus line in a location, for instance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are two parts to the study. An initial portion that gathers basic demographic information about everyone in the household, can be filled out right away. The more detailed section, part two, asks for a specific day\u2019s travel &#8211; including a walk to a neighbor\u2019s house, biking to the grocery store, taking the bus, or driving to work. Selected households will be assigned a travel date on one chosen weekday between March 15 and May 26.<\/p>\n Konduri and Lownes want the survey to track all modes of transportation, including walking and bicycles. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s every detail, every trip that you take throughout the day,\u201d Konduri said. \u201cWe are collecting information about the purpose of each trip, travel characteristics and what they do at the destination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you go jogging or walk the dog, that\u2019s part of the survey,\u201d Lownes said.<\/p>\n<p>Invitations are going to 150,000 households across the state, with a goal of 7,500 responses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe invites are going across the state, to all the major metro areas and to rural areas. We\u2019re trying to make sure that every type of household in Connecticut is proportionally represented,\u201d Konduri said.<\/p>\n<p>Konduri and Lownes stressed that the privacy of people who participate will be well protected. They emphasized that no individual household data will ever be made visible. All answers will be kept strictly confidential and will only be analyzed with responses from all other participating households.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will ensure the highest levels of privacy. The identifiable information, such as names and addresses, will never be associated with the data they provide,\u201d Konduri said.<\/p>\n<p>Lownes emphasized how excited he and Konduri are to gather this information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe University of Connecticut serves as a hub for knowledge in Connecticut and seeks to educate and train the next generation.\u00a0 This project serves both of these roles very well for the transportation community and is hopefully the beginning of a long and productive partnership.\u201d said Lownes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new travel study being conducted by UConn faculty will provide data for the state travel model, updating decades-old information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":221996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[43],"class_list":["post-22118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 07:55:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221999,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22118\/revisions\/221999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/221996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22118"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=22118"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}